Board of Visitors minutes October 15, 1999 | ||
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JEANETTE LANCASTER ALUMNI PROFESSORSHIP IN NURSING
The following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, Jeanette Lancaster, an alumna of the University of Tennessee, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Oklahoma, has served as a most distinguished Dean of the School of Nursing since 1989; and
WHEREAS, the School of Nursing Alumni Association, the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation and generous members and friends of the School of Nursing Advisory Board have made gifts to establish a professorship to honor Dean Lancaster; and
WHEREAS, the professorship, which would be the first at the University to honor a female dean, will be used to recruit or retain a distinguished expert to lead nursing education, practice, and research;
RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professorship in Nursing at the School of Nursing, thanks the donors who have made this possible, and commends Dean Lancaster for the leadership and vision she has shown in the first ten years of her deanship.
Board of Visitors minutes October 15, 1999 | ||